Sharp County record., 1887-06-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FREDERICK HERMAN, the man VINO Oeas
his wife almost TO death, and cut the
throats Of his child and him self at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was still living on the 9TH, but
his case is considered hopeless. His Wife
will probably recover.
TIE Marine Hospital service IS IN
formed that rigid quarantine has been
established at Tampa, Fla, and along the
coast Passengers are detained Tor NJ
teen DAYS aud mails are fumigated.
ROBERT NICHOLS was convicted OF may
hem at Kansas City, No, on the 7th. and
was sentenced to twelve years in the
peniteatiary. April p, in saloon fight
he bit of a part Of Phillip Welch's ear
while the two were c!inched, and, in the
excitement Of the moment, swallowed It,
TuE saloen and dwelling-house OF
George Mason, colored, at Nicholasyllle'
XIV, was blown up on the morning OF the
7th BY a dynamite bomb. His family oc-
cupied the upper story, but escaped un-
hurt. An odd grudge existed between
Mason and others, and to this IS attriout-
ed the motive for the outrage.
TIE largest real estate TRANSACTIONS
ever recorded in st. LOUIS were con-
summated on the 7th. SamuelF Scott, OF
Kansas City, purchased Mrs TyIer's
estate for s7)O,OO0, and 800 900 was paid
for the GriswoId tract by an Eastern
syndicate.
TIE tWenty-frst annual session OF the
Missouri State Press Association con-
vened in Jefferson City on the 7th, in the
hall of the House of representatives. The
attendance was unusually large, some
thing over one hundred editors being
present, together with large NUMBER Oh
ladies.
TAG illness of Mr.. W. W Corcoran, the
venerable philauthropist Of Washington,
draws attention to his many munIhclent
gifts to charitable objects. 1t is said these
have aggregated quite seven million dol
lars alto gether, his public gifts alone in
sums ranging from $1,000 upwards,
amounting to something over IS 00O,OJO.
THE health of the German Emperor and
Crown Prince is reported as improved.
STANLEY is said to be making good
progress through Africa to the relief OF
Emin Bey.
ENGLISH and Turkish officials are dis
cussing the objections of France and
Russia to the new Anglo-Turkish treaty
about Egypt.
AN explosion OF fre-damp occurred in
coal pit at Gelsenkirchen, in Westphalia,
on tho 9Th. Sixty-three miners are re-
ported killed. Over forty bodies have
been recovered.
TIE American Protestant Association
began its thirty-seventh annual session at
W ashin pton on the 8th.
TIE evide2ce against the alleged Nc
Neill (Tex) train-robbers failed and they
have all been discharged.
THE Navy Department has ordered a
court Of inquiry to ascertain the circum-
stances Of the death Of Lieutenant Clarke,
on board the United States steamship
IroquoIs.
SECRETARY WHITNEY took party OF
personal friends from New York and
Washington to Annapolis by special car
on the 9th to witness the closing exercises
of the Naval Academy.
A COMPETITIVE examination for post
office inspectors will be held at Washing
ton June % Forty seven applications
are on file and only thirty positions are to
be filled
TaE statement that Mr.. Jay Gould was
seriously i'll at Fortress Monroe was with
out found alton, jay Gould, Mrs Gould
aud a party of friends" were at the Riggs
House in Washington on the 8th, all well.
GEORGE J. GOULD, having been elected
president Of the Pacific Mail, is the
Youngest man that ever held 80 important
an office 1t is novelty in Wall street to
see man Of twenty-five at the head OF
corporation Of s0,00O,0)0
TIE treasury is but partly able to sup
ply the demands of the banks, especially
of New York, for one and two dollar GER
tifcates. The increased appropriation for
their manufacture will not be available
until July /, after which it is stated the
supply will be equal to the demand.
CHARLES D. SPENCER, one OF the bes
known men in Dakota, was indicted at
Pierre, on the Sth, by the grand-iury on
the charge OF cattle stealing.
The dwelling Of A. Brown, at Bradford,
Ont, was burned on the Sih. Four small
children, all under 10 years Of age, per-
ished in the flames. The parents, with q
baby, barely escaped with their lives.
THE jury in the case Of Adolph Reich, at
New York, who confessed that he had
killed his wife, but claimed that it was
done in self-defense, brought in verdict
Of murder in the first degree with
recommendation to mercy.
THE Pittsburgh & Western Road was
sold by the United States Marshal at
Pittsb burgh, on the Sth, under order Of
court, for 81 100000 1t was purchased by
parties Interested in the reorganization
scheme.
AT an early hour on the morning Of the
Sth J. w. White, a prominent resident OF
Wyoming, Pa, while atte mpting to ford
the Su.quehanna river at Forty Fort,
was drowned. His body was found.
MRS. MARY OUTwATER WHITE, daughter
of the late Pete Outwater, Of Syracuse,
N. Y, and wife of ex-President Andrew
d. White, Of Cornell University, fell de ad
after leaving the breakfast room at her
home in Ithaca, N. Y, on the Sth, Of
paralysis Of the heart. She was fifty
seven years old.
KENTUCKY distillers have agreed to
make no more whisky until October, 1888.
REPORTS from Berlin are to the effect
that the German Emperor's health is be-
coming alarmingly feeble.
THE American Bankers Association
has decided to hold its convention at Pitts
burgh, Pa. October 10 and 13 next.
GERMAN capitalists are endeavor1ng to
purchase the Inter-Colonial railroad from
the Canadian Cover nment.
PRINCE ARMAND DE PoLIGyAC declares
that General lie Flo has told only the
truth in his assertion that Germany was
restrained by Russia from attacking